Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the horse is to be trailered , it should first have some experience of eating its dinner in the trailer . |
| 2 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 3 | The qualification " as it were " in ( 1 ) suggests Pemberton 's own inner voice ; " that he could n't find it " in ( 4 ) suggests the boy 's peremptory style of speech ; something really superior in the way of a resident tutor " ( 11 ) suggests the Moreens ' way of expressing their requirements in the style of genteel private advertisements . |
| 4 | Sergio and Bacco , Lothar had begun the process of establishing his control in the diaconate , the area round his church . |
| 5 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |
| 6 | The choice of " Victory Day " for the occasion was the Caudillo 's way of restating his belief in the legitimacy of his regime and of reminding its members of their shared responsibility in its creation and their common interest in its continuation . |
| 7 | On the other hand , they know that the price of preserving their communities in the way that they want will be too high for their own country to have to pay . |
| 8 | On the surface there is the process of deciding which department in the organisation will have what to spend next year . |
| 9 | Davenport is thinking of selling his interest in the company ‘ at some time in the not-too-distant future ’ . |
| 10 | Her third single — SAW 's version of her old favourite , Little Eva 's ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , — had soared to the number two slot maintaining her record of getting her releases in the top two . |
| 11 | A good way of emphasizing your interest in the job and of keeping your image fresh in the mind of the interviewer is to write a follow-up letter after the interview . |
| 12 | But as the months passed he was reduced to the expedient of holding his meetings in the street before small groups of the curious and the hostile . |
| 13 | All police forces will be able to check erm , if they , sort of find your video in the boot of somebody 's car , they 'll be able to check if it 's marked . |
| 14 | The Cottage in the Wood Hotel , Malvern Wells , Hereford & Worcester , can not be accused of burying its head in the sand with its decision to introduce South African ostrich to its à la carte lunch and dinner menu . |
| 15 | Tobie nurses a dream of spending his life in the field with Urbino , but he 'd find he 's unpredictable too . |
| 16 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |
| 17 | We have seen that landowners have from early times sought methods of retaining their land in the family . |
| 18 | The claims will also leave the country stunned today as millions count the cost of Christmas and the chances of losing their job in the New Year . |
| 19 | AT Books Etc in Victoria Street , opposite Victoria Station yesterday , I spotted Chris Patten , the Conservative chairman who , in the wake of losing his seat in the General Election , has now been offered the governorship of Hong Kong . |
| 20 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 21 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 22 | What the second Mrs Van Butchell thought of having her predecessor in the house is not recorded , neither was Hunter 's opinion . |
| 23 | Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign . |
| 24 | What appears to be of more significance for the role of keiretsu in Japan 's economic growth is their objective of diversifying their interests in the widest possible range of activities throughout manufacturing industry , construction , finance and the service sector . |
| 25 | Gabrels is not in the habit of twiddling his thumbs in the gaps between Tin Machine projects . |
| 26 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 27 | The infant learns to talk of hearing its mother in the garden , smelling hamburgers cooking in the kitchen , or seeing the dog enjoying itself with a ball or being hurt by the cat . |
| 28 | Swindon Town have gone on a spending spree , in the hope of changing their fortunes in the premier league . |
| 29 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 30 | He looked very well and was full of talk of making his way in the world and starting a business some day . |